Re: Re: Text browsers
  By: Nightfox to Paulie420 on Tue May 05 2020 10:59 pm

 Ni> Around 1995, I started hearing about FTP access from a local BBS before I
 Ni> really knew what FTP and the internet was. When I first started learning
 Ni> about the internet, that was right about when I was using Windows 3.1 a
 Ni> lot for certain tasks. I started using the internet with Windows 3.1 -
 Ni> Trumpet Winsock to dial into my ISP, Netscape Navigator for browsing the
 Ni> web, and the various other Windows-based programs for internet use. 

 Ni> Around that time, the web site TUCOWS came around - It stood for The
 Ni> Ultimate Collection Of Winsock Software. Now I believe they've changed the
 Ni> W to stnad for "Windows". 

 Ni> Nightfox

LOL, I'm 40, and we had a very similair path to internet. I also used TOCOWS
back then; and FTP... I remember using a UNIX prompt to get around at first,
and went over to my girlfriends house where her father showed me Trumpter
Winsock... in the last post I confused that for TCP/IP. Yup... the rest is
history, huh!!

BTW, today TUCOWS is still around... they also created TING cell phone service,
which is kind of a cool thing... its like cell service sold in small chunks;
only pay for what you use, with an average bill of $35. My girlfriend uses it,
but its not for me as I'm a data-heavy user. 

I'm still angry @ myself for dropping out of computers a little bit after that
time. Went to my career, and just picked linux back up a year ago... thats why
I'm so stoked about BBSes being around again. Cheers, its neat remembering
about 'back in the day'...

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